Legacy & Forester - both 2015 Limiteds with Eyesight
Quite randomly and very intermittently, the same several dashboard lights have come on either car. (Never as the car is turned on. But sometimes as soon as shifting into drive, as well as several minutes of driving - such as 30 - 45 minutes. Other drive of an hour or more, it doesn't occur.)
All the Eyesight components light up solid and all Eyesight features stop functioning
AT Oil Temp and Brake lights each flash on/off steadily
The dash cycles through warnings
Eyesight,
Parking Brake,
Vehicle Dynamics Control,
Transmission
SVRD
The check engine light has not come on in the Legacy, but it did for the Forester.
Other than the Eyesight functions being disabled, the cars appear to operate fine.
Once the lights come on, they usually stay on for the remainder of the drive.
The Legacy has been doing this off & on for a few months. Having troubleshot electronics and software for a while, I understand how difficult it is to fix an intermittent issue if one does not see it. But, after the Forester did the same thing yesterday, I figure I would post this to see if it’s a known issue anyone knows about.
When the problem first occurred on the Legacy, I scanned for the OBDII codes with my relatively inexpensive Action scanner and came up with zilch.
Both cars were at the dealers in March about a week apart, but they had completely different recall work done.Posted in the Forester Forum last night while this server was down. My hope was that this was a known issue, but the responses so far do not appear so. There were several suggestions today on checking the battery/GND connections. Checked the battery connections on my Legacy when I got home. The negative terminal wasn't overly snug, but not sure if it was loose enough to create problems. Slathered both terminals with vaseline and tightened both terminals down firmly. Since the Legacy once went almost a month between occurrences, it will be several weeks until I gain any confidence this particular possible solution has worked.
See attached photos. Any other thoughts on this issue? Thanks.
